Vetted Authentication Professionals

Naveen Chokkakula

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Senior Golang Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native microservices

Texas, USA5y exp

“Software engineer with experience at UWorld and Infosys, focused on full-stack product delivery and backend reliability. Stands out for owning analytics/onboarding experiences end-to-end while also building resilient distributed systems, reusable service primitives, and safe multi-tenant configuration guardrails.”

“Built and continuously ships AI features for a recipe website, including a production workflow that ingests Instagram reels via webhooks, extracts/transcribes content, and converts it into structured recipe data. Also brings enterprise async/backend experience from Dot Foods, where they work with Azure Service Bus, Cosmos DB, and a pre-production Teams bot for logistics stakeholder questions.”

Michael St.Claire

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Chief Architect specializing in microservices, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise AI agents

Idaho, US22y exp

“Startup-focused engineering leader applying for a CTO role; previously served as founding CTO of a tech startup and held engineering/architecture roles across several others. Evaluates new ventures through market research and market demand, and emphasizes building from the ground up with strong teams (has not personally participated in fundraising).”

Preet Talati

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Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in .NET Core and React

2y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has shipped end-to-end, customer-facing features in an education/student-population context, including an authorized incident-reporting workflow with RBAC and a PostgreSQL-backed data model. Has 0→1 React+TypeScript/Redux product experience (CTO at Jiffur) and hands-on production operations with CI/CD (Azure Pipelines/GitHub Actions), including resolving a real CPU-saturation outage via operational mitigation and scaling changes.”

“Frontend lead on an SME CRM for a bank, building a scalable multi-country/multi-product React/Next.js platform with a config-driven onboarding workflow and multi-role permissions. Emphasizes quality and maintainability through CI gates, a full testing pyramid, and disciplined server-state caching with RTK Query, plus feature-flagged rollouts and data-driven iteration from pilot user feedback.”

“Backend engineer at Esurgi focused on real-time clinical workflow systems, improving API reliability, performance, and security. Has hands-on experience with FastAPI/Pydantic, JWT/RBAC and row-level data isolation, plus Kafka-based real-time processing—including fixing duplicate-processing edge cases via idempotency and offset management and rolling out refactors safely with feature flags and staged deployments.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who owned high-traffic internal services end-to-end (FastAPI/Django) including REST/GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL optimization, async task processing via SQS, and full CI/CD. Strong Kubernetes-on-EKS and GitOps (ArgoCD + Helm) experience, plus Kafka real-time streaming work and phased cloud-to-on-prem migration support.”

Blessing Alfred

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Senior Frontend & Mobile Engineer specializing in React, Vue, and TypeScript

Lagos, Nigeria5y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led end-to-end builds of both e-learning and e-commerce platforms in Next.js/React + TypeScript, with a strong focus on scalable component architecture, pragmatic state management (Redux/Zustand), and quality enforcement (linting, conventions, Cypress). Notably pivoted from NextAuth to a custom server-auth flow to support backend-introduced 2FA, and has experience executing fast hotfix rollouts including urgent third-party provider switches.”

Jonathan Grebe

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Mid-level Robotics Software Engineer specializing in ROS, C++ and embedded Linux

Ottawa, Canada7y exp

“Robotics software lead at Icor who grew from intern to owning the end-to-end software lifecycle for a mobile manipulator platform deployed to 300+ customers globally. Deep hands-on ROS2/MoveIt2 and navigation-stack integration (URDF/TF, sensors, behavior engine) plus production infrastructure (CI/CD, OTA, field OS upgrades) and real-world performance tuning for motion planning in EOD multi-robot environments.”

Naisarg Halvadiya

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Senior Full-Stack & AI Engineer specializing in scalable web platforms and LLM automation

Bengaluru, India4y exp

“Built a production agentic AI assistant in Python using Playwright plus Google Gemini’s vision capabilities to automatically document and execute UI workflows step-by-step, reducing developer time spent on trivial documentation/knowledge transfer. Also built an Apache Airflow ETL pipeline and has experience evaluating AI agents with human-in-the-loop methods, plus successfully communicated a vision-model-based CMS analytics PoC to non-technical university stakeholders and proposed it to Academic Technology with cost-savings rationale.”

“Backend/platform engineer with strong ownership of production systems, including a full Azure migration from a VM-based monolith to a containerized, event-driven microservices architecture. They combine cloud infrastructure, LLM/RAG optimization, and pragmatic stakeholder management, with measurable wins including 90% infra cost reduction, faster deployments, and significantly improved latency and token efficiency.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong production experience across Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, API Gateway, Glue, Redshift). Demonstrates reliability and incident ownership (rate limits, retries/circuit breakers, monitoring) and has delivered measurable SQL performance gains (12–15s to <800ms, ~60% CPU reduction). Seeking fully remote work and not open to relocation/onsite meetings.”

“Unity game developer with hands-on experience improving platformer feel through playtest-driven movement tuning (e.g., coyote time) and building multiplayer features using Unity Netcode for GameObjects (authentication, lobbies, transport troubleshooting with UDP). Uses AI assistants pragmatically for repetitive code/architecture exploration while integrating changes manually to prevent regressions.”

“Backend-focused engineer who owned an AI mentoring workflow platform built in Django with LangGraph multi-agent orchestration, optimizing it to stay under 200ms latency while scaling past 1,200 active users using profiling, caching, load testing, and OpenTelemetry-style tracing. Also has hands-on experience containerizing and deploying Python/ML services to AWS ECS via GitHub Actions/GitOps, and building reliable real-time pipelines with webhooks and Redis queues (idempotency, backpressure, DLQ).”

“Backend engineer who built an Emergency Alert System with Virginia Tech for the City of Alexandria, focusing on real-time ingestion, secure dashboards, and AI-assisted prioritization. Emphasizes high-stakes reliability with guardrails (hybrid rules+LLM, confidence-based fallbacks), scalable async processing, and defense-in-depth security (JWT/RBAC plus database row-level security).”

“Founding engineer with strong end-to-end product delivery across IoT + mobile + serverless cloud: built firmware for a Bluetooth-connected device (ESP32), a native Swift iOS app, and an AWS serverless backend (API Gateway/Lambda/SQS/SNS/DynamoDB) including payments via Stripe. Also shipped a separate startup product in 6 months: a React visual tool that generated HTTP/REST APIs with a Django backend, admin panel, and a code-generating CLI.”

Likhith Kumar Yaramala

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Junior Backend/Cloud Software Engineer specializing in microservices and DevOps

India2y exp

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with strong Linux production operations experience, deploying microservices to AWS on Docker/Kubernetes. Has built and operated secure CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins) and Terraform IaC workflows with approvals, remote state, and drift detection, and has hands-on incident recovery experience in containerized environments; limited direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA exposure.”

“Full-stack product engineer who builds and owns production features across Next.js/React/TypeScript and Java Spring Boot, with strong Postgres data modeling and performance tuning. Has delivered measurable improvements (60%+ faster renders, 2s→100ms queries, 50% lower workflow latency) and built reliable Kafka-based workflows with robust observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Alertmanager) and high test coverage.”

Ashritha G

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Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud microservices

USA3y exp

“Software engineer with enterprise, customer-facing delivery experience across Outlier AI and Wipro—builds and productionizes workflow and integration solutions with a strong focus on real-world performance and reliability. Delivered a Firestore/Redis-backed real-time pipeline that cut page load times by 20% and held consistent performance across 10,000+ sessions, and has hands-on production incident experience stabilizing high-traffic microservices via caching, indexing, and safe canary deployments.”

Pranav Zagade

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI systems

Arizona, USA3y exp

“Built and shipped an LLM-powered support agent for Community Dreams Foundation that automated intake and Jira ticket creation using RAG, structured outputs, and strong production guardrails. Demonstrated practical production AI experience with 92% routing accuracy, 98% uptime, and a 31% improvement in first-response accuracy, plus hands-on work in observability, evals, idempotency, and failure handling.”

“Full-stack product engineer in a high-growth startup environment who led a revenue- and retention-driving Loyalty Pass feature end-to-end using Next.js App Router, TypeScript, and Postgres. They pair strong frontend performance instincts with backend reliability work, including Stripe-based onboarding/billing refactors, idempotent workflows, and production observability.”

Raunak Bandyopadhyay

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Intern-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and web systems

Amherst, MA0y exp

“Backend-focused intern in telehealth who combined engineering, QA leadership, and emergency infrastructure ownership. Built a text chat feature and an OpenAI-powered therapy chatbot, then stepped up to rebuild AWS infrastructure after it was accidentally deleted, while also improving chat responsiveness and reporting a 30% engagement lift.”